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Saturday, December 02, 2006

Hand me down that can of memes

The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.It's a meme I found on U dream of Janie. I thought, what the hell, let's give it a shot. Here we go:1.Grab the nearest book. No cheating! The nearest book.2.Open the book at page 123.3.Find the fifth sentence.4.Post the text of the next four sentences on your blog, along with these instructions.5.Don't you dare dig for a cool or intellectual book on your shelf. Pick out whatever is closest!

The sentence at the top of the post is number five. Here are the next four sentences of the book.When this power goes awry and one element usurps control over the total personality, we have "daimon possession," the traditional name through history for psychosis. The daimonic is obviously not an entity but refers to a fundamental, archetypal function of human experience - an existential reality in modern man and, so far as we know, in all men.The daimonic is the urge in every being to affirm itself, assert itself, perpetuate and increase itself. The daimonic becomes evil when it usurps the total self without regard to the integration of that self, or to the unique forms and desires of others and their need for integration.Whew! I wish now I'd picked the book on the shelf above - a Dilbert book by Scott Adams, instead of this tome, one of my wife's psychology books.I'm not supposed to tell you which one. You have to guess. So to keep up the suspense I'll wait until my next post to tell you. I promise.